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Coercive Confinement in Ireland - Patients, Prisoners and Penitents (Hardcover)
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Coercive Confinement in Ireland - Patients, Prisoners and Penitents (Hardcover)
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This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of
thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years
of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby
homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools, prisons
and Borstal formed a network of institutions of coercive
confinement that was integral to the emerging state. The book
provides a wealth of contemporaneous accounts of what life was like
within these austere and forbidding places as well as offering a
compelling explanation for the longevity of the system and the
reasons for its ultimate decline. While many accounts exist of
individual institutions and the factors associated with their
operation, this is the first attempt to provide a holistic account
of the interlocking range of institutions that dominated the
physical landscape and, in many ways, underpinned the rural
economy. Highlighting the overlapping roles of church, state and
family in the maintenance of these forms of social control, this
book will appeal to those interested in understanding
twentieth-century Ireland: in particular, historians, legal
scholars, criminologists, sociologists and other social scientists.
These arguments take on special importance as Irish society
continues to grapple with the legacy of its extensive use of
institutionalisation. -- .
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